Burnt offerings XXI

The father shall be divided against the son,

and the son against the father;

the mother against the daughter,

and the daughter against the mother;

the mother in law against her daughter in law,

and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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Also he said,

Bring the veil that thou hast upon thee,

and hold it.

And when she held it,

he measured six measures of barley,

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And the rib,

which the Lord God had taken from man,

made he a workman,

and brought her unto the man.

And Adam said,

This is now bone of my bones,

and flesh of my flesh:

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she shall be called Woman,

because she was taken out of Man.

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and laid it on her:

and she went into the city.

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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,

but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father,

and the daughter against - her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me:

and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

He that findeth his life shall lose it:

and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward;

and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple,

verily I say unto you,

he shall - in no wise - lose his reward.

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Also he said,

Bring the veil that thou hast upon thee,

and hold it.

And when she held it,

he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her:

and she went into the city.

And when she came to her mother in law,

she said,

Who art thou, my daughter?

And she told her all that the man had done to her.

And she said,

These six measures of barley gave he me;

for he said to me,

Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

Then said she,

Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.

Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there:

and, behold,

the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto

whom he said,

Ho,

such a one!

turn aside, sit down here.

And he turned aside, and sat down.

Samuel